“Too many plastic” (sic) is not a valid critique. If it’s similar in quality to the original, it’s a little monster.
Surprising how synth makers ‘get it’ and guitar manufacturers, like Fender, don’t. Fender is making bogus crap for jerkoff non-players at crazy prices, mixed with Chinese slave-labor products for kids. With guitars it’s all about name brand recognition and ‘participation mystique’ (playing your idol’s axe of facsimile of it). Even Moog has gotten into fetish recently and it’s gross.

the MS-20 is an awesome signal-processor for audio mangling… the fact that its also a cool synth in its own right is part of the “legendary” package.. but thats why its so widely loved, because of this double duty, and also the particular type of filters it has – which are unique, and highly characteristic

You know people are going to hack it once they get their hands on it so the VCF can be controlled by CV or MIDI, etc. (Like Devil Fish is to the 303; x0xi0, to the x0xb0x; Encore, to the Jupiter-8.) It’s gonna be fun to see what people come up with(!)

Why are the Korg demo guys so shit? Korg should hire that guy from the Moog booth to come over and do the demos!

Those 2 korg demo guys clearly know nothing about synthesis or the patchbay. One of them never uses the patch cords, the other just patches the mod wheel in 2 different demos. They clearly havn’t a clue. In the Sonic State demo is takes like 5 mins to find out the price, and this is after he’s shoved to one side for being so shit.

Two questions:
Will it “fully work” with the original SQ10 [got one of this beauty’s :)]? (I mean all the patching)
Will it act as a USB/midi/CV converter between the computer and other analog synths?
If the answer is yes to both I will be all over the moon!
Thanks!!!

The logical next step from Korg to milk the development costs of this is to produce an MS50 mini. No point in doing an MS10 at this price and can’t see them pushing the boat out with an SQ10, too niche, although I’d buy it.

Well, the knobs are plastic and tiny. I believe the sides are plastic, not sure about the case. The keys are those tiny micro keys, which I am not personally a fan of. The mod wheel felt wiggly side to side for me and had no weight to it. I have never used the controller. Nonetheless it was fun playing with it and thousands fingers prodded it this this weekend, so perhaps this lil guy got a lil abused.

I haven’t seen where anyone has noticed that this thing looks like it was taken from the leftovers bin at the Korg warehouse. Isn’t this the EXACT same enclosure and keyboard that the Legacy Cell VST came with as a controller when Legacy Cell was first released? I had one of those controllers when I bought Legacy Cell, it was exactly the same as this “new” synth. It even had the same yellow patchcords, and the same 86% size and the same ~mini keys~ keyboard. It’s like Korg just dug up those old Legacy Cell controllers and stuffed some analog circuitry in it. If that happens to be true, don’t expect like super good construction. And of course, I could be mistaken. I haven’t read everything there is to read about this new synth, so what I’ve said here may be old news.